Printup Bros. & Co. v. Smith
Supreme Court of Georgia
Statute of Limitations. Malicious Prosecution. Actions. Before Judge Lawson. Floyd Superior Court. September Term, 1884. Printup Brothers & Company brought their action against Henry IT.
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Statute of Limitations. Malicious Prosecution. Actions. Before Judge Lawson. Floyd Superior Court. September Term, 1884. Printup Brothers & Company brought their action against Henry IT. Smith and S. P. Smith, surviving partners of ,S. P. Smith, Son & Brother, on March 2, 1880. The body of the declaration was as follows: “ S. P. Smith, Son & Brother have injured and damaged your petitioners in the sum of six thousand ($6,000) dollars, for that, heretofore, to-wit: On the 19th and 22d day of July, 1875, and at divers days and times thereafter, to-wit, on the -day of-1875, the said defendants,…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This is an action brought by plaintiffs in error against defendants in error for a malicious prosecution of certain attachments and a bill in aid of them, enjoining plaintiffs-*162in error from the prosecution of their claims in the attachment cases, which litigation was finally terminated adversely to defendants in error in October, 1879, and this action was brought in the spring of 1880. The declaration, fully set out by the reporter, was demurred to, as reported also, and the demurrer sustained and the action dismissed, ■on the ground, as certified in the bill of…
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